May 8 in history: • 1373 – Julian of Norwich experienced religious visions, later recorded in Revelations of Divine Love, the earliest surviving English-language work attributed to a woman. → go there • 1821 – Greek War of Independence: At the Battle of Gravia Inn, a 120-man Greek force led by Odysseas Androutsos repulsed an Ottoman army of 8,000 soldiers. → go there • 1976 – Great American Revolution opened at Six Flags Magic Mountain, California. → go there • 2025 – Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected as Pope Leo XIV (pictured), making him the first pope born in the United States, the first to hold either U.S. or Peruvian citizenship, the first from the Order of Saint Augustine, and the second from the Americas after his immediate predecessor, Pope Francis. → go there Died 1551: Barbara Radziwiłł Wiki link Born 1876: Ludvig Karsten Wiki link Born 1926: David Attenborough Wiki link Born 1976: Ian "H" Watkins Wiki link Pictured: Pope Leo XIV.